Athens-Washington County OhArchives News.....Watts Larceny March 6, 1873
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Marietta Register, Pg. 3, Col. 3, Thursday March 6, 1873 March 6, 1873
A man who called himself Watts, apparently an Englishman by birth, stopped at 
the Cunningham house, in New England, on Monday evening, and told his landlady 
that he had no money and wanted supper and lodging, and she in her kindness of 
heart, gave hiim a square meal and a bed in a room in which there was another 
bed.  After he had gone to bed, another guest arrived on the accompmodation 
train, who was taken to the same room.  Some time in the night Watts got up 
and went through the clothes of the last comer, whose name is Humphrey, and 
appropriated a watch worth fifty dollars, seven dollars in money and a jack 
knife worth perhaps fifty cents, and then strated for some other place.  He 
was tracked up to Warren Station, where he took the cars, and was telegraphed 
for along the line, arrested at Hamden and brought back to Athens by a 
constable and held in six hundred dollars bail to answer for the larcenty.  
(Athens Journal)

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